This 12-minute video lesson provides a basic introduction to risk and reward. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 157 of 184]

This 3-minute video lesson provides thinking about why a severe contango could be bearish. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 95 of 184]

This 10-minute video lesson explains what it means to short a stock. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 19 of 184]

This 9-minute video lesson presents more on the mechanics of shorting stock. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 20 of 184]

This 7-minute video lesson considers the virtuous circle of housing price appreciation making defaults go down making lending lax making housing appreciate even more. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 16 of 184]

This 9-minute video lesson looks at why housing prices went up so much from 2000-2006 even though classical supply/demand would not have called for it. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 13 of 184]

This 9-minute video lesson looks at how lower lending standards led to housing price inflation and helped created the housing price conundrum. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 14 of 184]

This 10-minute video lesson discusses why lending standards become more and more lax from 2000 to 2006. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 15 of 184]

This 4-minute video lesson explains the yield curve. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 136 of 184]

This 9-minute video lesson looks at why when you get your money matters as much as how much money. Present and future value are also discussed. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 177 of 184]

This 4-minute video lesson looks at why yields go down when prices go up. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 134 of 184]

This 4-minute video lesson looks at the upper bound on forward settlement price. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 101 of 184]

This 5-minute video lesson explains how credit default swaps can be used as hedges, insurance or side-bets. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 166 of 184]

This 14-minute video lesson discusses what it means to buy a company's stock. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 17 of 184]

Financial Empowerment is designed for a single-semester introduction to financial planning and decision-making, in order to provide first and second-year students with the necessary financial literacy and skills needed to make sound financial decisions, assess financial risk, and achieve financial success. This textbook attempts to speak to the varied backgrounds, knowledge systems, and experiences of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Canadians by providing Indigenous and non-Indigenous perspectives on personal finance and financial planning using examples and information from Elders, the Canadian financial system, and the economy.

This is an introduction on day 1 for students to learn what it takes to have a solid retirement.  It walks them through how much they would need to save monthly starting at 25, 35, 45, and 55 with the goal of a million dollars by 65.  Use it as a way to get students excited about the course and a stock project if you run one.  Topics include compound interest, savings rates, and time value of money using real world material.